More Bypass Surgery News

• Priming Heart Before an Attack Could Limit Damage

  Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Just as daily runs can prepare you to survive a ...

• Newer Anticlotting Drug Safe, Effective for Heart Surgeries

  Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A newer kind of anticlotting drug is safe over the ...

• Statins After Bypass Lower Stroke Risk

  Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs after coronary artery bypass graft ...

• Trasylol Pulled From Worldwide Market

  Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Bayer AG suspended worldwide sales of Trasylol, a clotting drug ...

• New Anti-Clotting Drug Shows Promise in Heart Patients

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new anti-clotting drug might one day challenge Plavix, the ...

• Balloon Valve May Be Alternative to Open-Heart Surgery

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Older, high-risk heart patients with narrowed aortas who typically need ...

• Drug-Coated Stents No Riskier in Long Run Than Bare Metal Ones

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- In the largest study of its kind to date, Harvard ...

• FDA to Review Clotting Drug After Trial Suggests Death Risk

  Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it ...

• Angioplasty Equals Bypass Surgery for Heart Patients: Study

  Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Someone with "mid-range" -- or intermediate -- coronary artery disease ...

• Bypass 'Off-Pump' Boosts Women's Outcomes

  Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Performing coronary bypass procedures without using the heart-lung machine can ...

• Restricting Blood Flow May Help Heart Bypass Patients

  August 17 (HealthDay News) -- In a potentially significant discovery for heart bypass patients, British ...

• Cirrhosis Can Impact Heart Surgery Success

  July 13 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with cirrhosis, the severity of the disease will ...

• Medical Tourism Takes Flight

  July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Soaring U.S. medical costs are causing many Americans to take ...

• Early Palliative Care Cuts Time in ICU

  June 22 (HealthDay News) -- For seriously ill patients, early proactive palliative care reduced the ...

• Changing Heart Transplant Drugs Could Boost Kidney Function

  April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Changing a heart transplant patient's immunosuppression drug regimen may improve ...

• Drug-Coated Stents as Good as Bypass Surgery

  April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Drug-eluting stents had roughly the same risk and the same ...

• Doctors Aggressively Treating Heart Attack

  April 16 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors do a good job of aggressively treating heart ...

• Enzyme Discovery Could Greatly Expand Blood Supply

  April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they've found a way to change type A ...

• U.S. Hospital Errors Continue to Rise

  April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Patient safety incidents in U.S. hospitals increased by three percent ...